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CompTIA Discusses Mobile Enterprise

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Is enterprise ready to embrace mobile? IT professional and company association CompTIA recently asked this question at the annual EMEA Member Conference, with a session discussing the growing (in both size and importance) role of mobile devices in enterprise. 

CompTIAAfter all, 90% of the 1 billion internet-enabled devices sold in Europe are mobile devices.

Starting off the session was GfK group director and market researcher Carl West, who says the traditional PC business has reached saturation point-- and mobile devices, together with the cloud, are reinvigorating the market, kicking off the replacement cycle and "giving us something to talk about."

West states "mobility and the mobile enterprise is not about hardware but is instead about implementation and best practice.”

Next to speak was Dimension Data CTO Neal Louw, who described mobile enterprise not as an evolution, but a revolution rapidly changing a landscape IT departments are struggling to keep up with. 

His biggest concern is security-- a concern that is only getting bigger, as more employees bring their devices to their workplaces. Louw asked whether IT departments have a "bring your own" policy. If not, they are "already behind the curve."

The industry needs to address the growing complexity behind mobile enterprise, Louw continued. 

RIM platform product marketing director Anthony Payne also talked about mobile enterprise, describing it as both a challenge and an opportunity for both vendors and IT departments. Payne points out we are living in a multi-platform world, and thus vendors and resellers need to tailor solutions to their customers-- the platform is not as important as "enabling" the user in question. 

Moderator Bob Snyder, Channel Media Europe editor-in-chief, summed up the session by saying today the IT business is becoming the mobile business-- and mobile is driving the cloud by enabling computing anywhere, anytime, on any device, for better or worse. 

Watch CompTIA EMEA 2011: The Mobile Enterprise

Galaxy Tab at IFA No More

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The Apple-Samsung patent battle continues with a casualty-- Samsung loses the chance to showcase the Galaxy Tab 7.7 at IFA 2011.

Apple SamsungThe Bloomberg report follows orders from a Düsseldorf court banning sales and marketing of the newly announced tablet.

Galaxy Tab 7.7 demo models did show up for the first days of the show-- clad with stickers saying "NOT FOR SALE IN GERMANY"-- but not anymore.

Apple and Samung's legal disputes take place across 3 continents, as Apple accuses Samsung of copying iPhone and iPad designs.

Last August, the Düsseldorf Regional Court ordered a temporary sales ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in 26 (out of 27) EU countries.

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Global Mobile Awards' Handset Winners

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The GSMA announces the winners for its 16th Global Mobile Awards at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress.

AwardsThe final awards winners got honoured at the event's evening awards ceremony-- Best Mobile Device and Device Manufacturer of the year.

Apple's iPhone 4 takes home the award for the year's best mobile device. The device needs no introduction-- now with 2 cameras (1 frontfacing and 1 backfacing), high resolution Retina display, HD video recording and multitasking (or rather fast app switching). It's also Apple's thinnest iPhone yet, with only 93mm's worth of thickness, as 2 panels of aluminosilicate glass sandwich a stainless steel band alongside all components.

Meanwhile HTC takes the device manufacturer award, thanks to its impressive handset range, beating the likes of Samsung and Apple. HTC already won the the best mobile phone prize last year, with the HTC Hero. As well as taking the award, the company launches its new smartphone series carrying its Sense technolgy-- the Desire S, Wildfire S and Incredible S.

Finally Vitality and AT&T take home the Best Embedded mobile Product (non handset) award with their Vitality GlowCaps. Users fit the device on their medicine bottles, which lights up and sends a phone call or text message to remind them to take their medication. The device also keeps track of users' opening of their pill bottle, recording data that can be used to create progress reports for both users and their caregivers and family members.

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Record Mobile World Congress 2011

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MWCShow organisers GSMA report a record attendance of over 60000 visitors for Mobile World Congress 2011, 51% of which consists of C-level positions (including over 3000 CEOs)-- a new high.

The show holds nearly 1400 exhibitors in over 56800 net square meters of space, with 2900 media members and 12000 developers on the show floor. GSMA also reports an attendance of government delegations from 131 countries for its Ministerial Programme. 

Meanwhile the App Planet event reports over 45000 visits, with developer events including Macworld Mobile, Mobile Cloud Forum and LTE forum. 

The organisers also confirm Mobile World Congress will return to Barcelona on 2012.

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